Debris or débris (UK: /ˈdɛbriː/ or /ˈdeɪbriː/; US: /dɨˈbriː/) is rubble, wreckage, ruins, litter and discarded garbage/refuse/trash, scattered remains of something destroyed, discarded, or as in geology, large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc. Depending on context, debris can refer to a number of different things.